Kendall Hailey

{{Short description|American writer and autodidact}}

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Kendall Hailey is an American writer and autodidact. She graduated from high school a year early, at age 16, to pursue unschooling and wrote about her experiences in the book, The Day I Became an Autodidact and the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies that Befell Me Thereafter (Delacorte Press, {{ISBN|0-385-29636-3}}, and Bantam Dell Publishing Group, New York, 1988, {{ISBN|0-440-55013-0}}). The book details first her decision to leave formal education, and follows her as she sets out to read everything ever published.

She is a daughter of playwright Oliver Hailey and novelist Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey.{{cite news |last1=Njeri |first1=Itabari |title=The Unconventional World of Kendall Hailey |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-06-vw-780-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 6, 1988}}